1971 Curtis Mathes tube type color set

[Chad Hauris]

Thanks Doug, I do like the cabinet style but I feel bad that CM had started to cheap out on the construction...it seems like a lot of the cabinet elements are warping as there is just not all that good of structural integrity to the whole thing. I have another CM color set which is probably late 60's and the cabinet making seems so much more solid.

I wonder if the Thordarson flyback was spec'd as OEM by CM. All of the solder joints/wiring look factory. The repair job that this set had where the diodes and a power resistor were replaced was real fly-by-night, the soldering was very poorly done and some joints didn't even have solder, leading to no power. Either the flyback replacement and the power supply repair were done by two very different shops or the flyback was OEM.

This must have been at a time where CM was trying to cut costs like in the cabinet but the engineering side was still trying to make a superior quality product. I wonder when the last real CM-built chassis like this was made? It seems like maybe CM went from this tube-type chassis to the NEC solid state chassis with no real CM-built solid state chassis in between.